As a SFC old timer, let me just add my praise to Asheesh's and his dedication to this organization. There would be a lot less to say about SFC it weren't for his effort over the years.
So, Thanks! F ~ ~ ~ thoughts / http://fredbenenson.com/blog work / http://kickstarter.com sights / http://flickr.com/fcb sounds / http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis status / http://twitter.com/mecredis On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Alex Kozak <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for your years of support Asheesh, and thanks to the webteam as > well. The SFC web presence is the pillar of the org and FC generally. > > You definitely deserve one of these (hell you've probably earned them all > by now): > http://www.nerdmeritbadges.com/products/06-full-stack-web-developer > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Adi Kamdar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Bravo, web team. Bravo! >> -Adi >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Asheesh Laroia >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hey all lovely freeculture.org people, >>> >>> I've been pretty quiet on the lists lately, but I've still been active >>> behind the scenes a little bit making sure nothing goes too terribly wrong >>> with freeculture.org's Internet presence. Most notably, when >>> freeculture.org had our last online catastrophe in late 2006 (suffering >>> pretty massive data loss due to our host's hard disks dying and us having no >>> backups), I decided I'd take a more direct role in maintaining >>> freeculture.org. Since early 2007, freeculture.org and its services have >>> run on a virtual machine on my personal server. >>> >>> That's been going decently well. There have been a few hiccups, like one >>> that took place last weekend. The outage lasted from Saturday 9 AM >>> US/Eastern and ended about Monday 8 PM. We updated the >>> freeculture.orgstatus blog <> >>> http://fcostatus.wordpress.com/> as we had updates. Parker and I put a >>> temporary conference website up during the outage. >>> >>> I've been very busy lately and haven't been putting a lot of time into >>> freeculture.org. When the outage happened, I was particularly >>> disheartened to see my nightly backup job that backs up all >>> freeculture.org data had stopped on May 3, 2009. (That happens >>> co-incides with me moving out of San Francisco.) >>> >>> I've started that up again, and it's taking a snapshot now, so in case >>> there's another emergency on my personal machine we can move the services >>> somewhere else pretty quickly. >>> >>> The years last couple of years have seen stability and progress for >>> freeculture.org tech. That's because of a lot of people who are not me. >>> I want to give massive thanks to Parker Phinney, who has taken over a lot of >>> day-to-day work on the web team. Tony Biondo deserves a huge thanks too for >>> his contributions, especially setting up new chapters with web space. Joichi >>> Ito deserves a hug for letting us have the rack space in Tokyo (where my >>> machine is physically located), and Yukitake Kuriyama ("Kuri-san") deserves >>> a round of applause for administering the network and helping us out with >>> reboots in emergencies. I'm blessed to know such great people. Oh, and >>> thanks to Greg Grossmeier for calling me Saturday "morning" to notify me out >>> of the outage. >>> >>> If you're interested in finding out how you can help, send an >>> introduction email to the webteam list -- >>> http://lists.freeculture.org/webteam . >>> >>> Email at freeculture.org has just come back online as of a few hours >>> ago, which explains the long delay in Ben's post about how you can be funded >>> to attend the conference in DC. I'm planing to be there, so hopefully I'll >>> see many of you there! >>> >>> My own record of web team leadership has had its ups and downs, so I want >>> to take a moment to apologize to everyone whose awesome projects have been >>> slowed down by my unresponsiveness. It's been fun being involved with >>> freeculture.org -- some of you remember me from conference calls in >>> 2004-2005, and maybe there's a person or two still on the list who remembers >>> OPG v. Diebold. I stick around because it's heartening to know the various >>> Students for Free Culture are still active, and to see our illustrious >>> alumni go on to do great things. I wish I were more active, and one day I >>> may need to retire. >>> >>> But until then, I'm your Chief Web Wrangler. >>> >>> -- Asheesh. >>> >>> -- >>> See, these two penguins walked into a bar, which was really stupid, >>> 'cause >>> the second one should have seen it. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> > > > -- > Alex Kozak > Education Program Assistant > Creative Commons > 415.369.8492 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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